New ??? Jeans

[Ryder]

Tonight was my excursion night to the shopping mall. I make this trip one to three times per year. Passed by a display window and there were a lot of jeans laid out. They were more worn out than my worst one. Faded, torn, holes in them, just a wreck. Checked price. They were $69 a pair. There must be a lot of people about with a lot more money than they have sense. Is there something I am missing here?

 

[Jake]

I fail to see the point in it. I fail to see the point in paying that much for clothes period. I won't buy a shirt/ pair of jeans/ sweatshirt or anything over $20. Bought my last jeans for $8. Most of the time I'll pay $14. When I quit wearing them is when the rest of the kids would probably start wearing them.

 

[msscamp]

Yeah, it's called fashion! Hard to comprehend, yes, but a major factor nonetheless! Kind of like those jeans that the kids wear that the crotch comes down to their knees. I'll be the first to admit I don't understand the reasoning behind it. :?

 

[Beefy]

ive often wondered if i could make a living buying normal jeans and slitting them at the ankles, working in them for a few months and sharpening my knife somewhere in the thigh area, then selling them. oh, i forgot, also i would have to wipe my hands down the thigh to get that area extra faded. sell that pair, and by 3 normal pairs and start all over. repeat.

 

[Beefy]

Jake,
what kind of walmart do you shop at? $8?!?

 

[Jake]

Jake,
what kind of walmart do you shop at? $8?!?

outlet mall along the interstate I stopped at the other day. Wrangler store there had shirts for $10 and "Classic cut" jeans for $8

 

[Beefy]

Holy Bat, Crapman! good deal.

 

[Jake]

Holy Bat, Crapman! good deal.

Got a "George Strait" button up good shirt for $14... I'm cheap, what can I say

 

[Beefy]

my mom thinks i'm weird b/c she asked me if i wantd new clothes for Christmas and i told her yes, i wanted some of those coveralls that are made of the light material like khaki that i can wear when its not cold.

 

[Beefy]

that reminds me, i have to start Christmas shopping tomorrow.

 

[TxCoUnTrYbOy]

that reminds me, i have to start Christmas shopping tomorrow.

Your not alone there. I hate fighting the crowds at Walmart 2 days before Christmas, but for some odd reason I do it every year.

Apparently jeans like that are the "style" today. I guess Im lucky, my clothes are finally popular. Its funny cause at school these preppy kids always come up and say "How did you get your jeans to look that worn out", and I just tell them "Because I work and wear them out".

A couple times a year my family takes a trip up to a town called Justin, a little north of Fort Worth and they have really good western outlet centers. Of course, everything is a factory reject, but only tiny minor flaws, usually not noticable. The jeans size might be a little off, or the boots might have a little scratch, but they mark off a ton for those. I think the good Wrangler jeans go for $6 or $8 a pair, normally like $20 to $30 anywhere else. After that we go and blow all the money we saved on a good steak dinner at the Cattlemens place in the Fort Worth Stockyards.

 

[Australian Cattleman]

Clothing is expensive here in Australia. My stepson wears jeans that should be in the rag bag he's only just bought them "new".
I have better work jeans without holes in them.
I've offered him some of mine but they are not bad enough.
Colin

 

[-bherefords]

Yup, Justin is the place to go shopping, for anything boots, jeans, shirts and the best thing is, is that its cheap!![/quote]

 

[sidney411]

One of my friends at work just bought a new pair of jeans and I saw the tag - $128!!!! I almost passed out. There is a VF Factory outlet that I go to that has Wranglers for $10 usually but it's hard to find just the sytle and size thet you need. They have 1000's of pairs of jeans but they are usually all in someone else's size.

 

[dun]

I guess it's what the melon smasher Gallagher callsstyle

dun

 

[Dee]

My daughter whined for the "destroyed" denim jeans. I bought her good jeans, then took the cheese grater to her old ones and made some worn spots and holes, soaked them in a sink of coffee overnight for the "grunge" look, and she was delighted with the jeans, and I was happy not to have spent $50 on worn out clothes.

 

[Ryan]

Yup, Justin is the place to go shopping, for anything boots, jeans, shirts and the best thing is, is that its cheap!!

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Yup... its only like 20-25 min from my house. Those stores are huge.

 

[Rustler9]

I always go to Justin when I'm in Ft Worth. Went last month and wound up spending $65.00 for two nice Wrangler shirts, a Cinch shirt and a pair of Wranglers. I'm going back next month when I go down for the Select Heifer sale.

As far as the clothes kids wear now, they buy them looking like what we always wore to the barn or the tobacco patch. We bought the clothes new and wore them until they were almost worn out then we'd use them to do farm work in.

I see guys wearing their pants sagging down below their @$$es and I always wish I could get those folks out in my muddy barn lot helping sort some calves and we'd see how quick they'd grab some hay twine and tie them up where they're supposed to be. I stopped to get gas one day and I saw a fellow with his waist of his pants down below his butt and he had to bend over for something and you could see his drawers. I'd like to see them try to run with their pants down below their butts.

 

[edb130]

I've heard on a radio talk show that the pants hanging down comes from the prison culture. Prisoners aren't allowed belts and in some cases their pants hang down. Somehow these kids have latched on to this and decided it was the cool thing to do. I've already warned my kids the first time I see them doing this I'll take their pants down and shove them out the door to walk around in their underwear for a while. Maybe that would embarass kids enough to think about what their doing. I won't tolerate torn clothes in my house either.

 

[Susie David]

Nothing like seeing the kids (girls) doing the wash...washing the new jeans so that they would frey where they cut out the knees and other places.
Got another problem...son is home for Christmas, went out to help feed this morning...doesn't fit in his coveralls any more. Kid is 6'3" and around 275...we're off to the ranch & farm supply today to see what we can find.
DMc